V. I. Lenin

Greetings to the Liberated Primorye Territory[1]

Written:26 October 1922First Published:PravdaNo. 243, October 27. 1922; Published according to thePravdatext,Source:Lenin’sCollected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 33, page 382Translated:David Skvirsky and George HannaTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

To the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Far
      Eastern Republic, Chita[2]

On the fifth anniversary of the victorious October Revolution the Red
    Army has taken another decisive step towards completely clearing the
    territory of the R.S.F.S.R. and of its allied republics of foreign troops of
    occupation. The capture of Vladivostok by the People’s Revolutionary
    Army of the Far Eastern Republic unites with the masses of the working
    people of Russia the Russian citizens who have borne the heavy yoke of
    Japanese imperialism. I congratulate all the working people of Russia and
    our val-iant Red Army on this new victory, and I request the Gov-ernment of
    the Far Eastern Republic to convey to all the workers and peasants in the
    liberated regions, and in Vladivostok, the greetings of the Council of
    People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin),Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R.

Moscow, October 26, 1922

[1]Lenin sent
    his telegram of greetings to the liberated Primorye Territory on the
    occasion of the liberation of Vladivostok on October 25, 1922, by troops of
    the Far Eastern Republic, who acted jointly with guerillas in clearing out
    the whiteguards and Japanese interventionists. In their reply, the working
    people of Primorye Territory sent greetings to the Soviet Government
      and thanked it for its assistance.

[2]The Far
    Eastern Republic was established in April 1920. It embraced the Trans-Baikal
    Area, Amur, Primorye and K.amchatka regions, and the northern part of the
    Sakhalin Island. The for-mation of this "buffer" state as a
    bourgeois-democratic republic that pursued an essentially Soviet policy
    suited the interests of Soviet Russia, which sought to secure a prolonged
    respite on the Eastern Front and avoid war with Japan.

On November 14, 1922, after the interventionists and the
    white-guards were driven out of the Far East (with the exception of the
    northern part of the Sakhalin Island), the People's Assembly of the Far
    Eastern Republic passed a decission to unite with the R.S.F.S.R.